* Astronomy

Bell Rock Lighthouse is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse nd was built on Bell Rock (also known as Inchcape) in the North Sea, 18 km off the coast of Angus, Scotland, east of the Firth of Tay. The lamp at the Bell Rock Lighthouse was first lit on the 1st February, 1811. Read more [spoil...

Melba Newell Phillips (February 1, 1907 - November 8, 2004) was an American physicist and science educator. She completed her doctoral studies under J. Robert Oppenheimer and was also known for refusing to testify before a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on internal security, he...

Emilio Gino Segrè (1 February 1905 -22 April 1989) was an Italian physicist and Nobel laureate in physics, who with Owen Chamberlain, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle. Read more

Lloyd Viel Berkner (February 1, 1905, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin -June 4, 1967, in Washington, D.C.) was an American physicist and engineer. He was one of the inventors of the measuring device that since has become standard at ionospheric stations because it measures the height and electron density...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system just beyond Neptune. The needle-in-a-haystack object found by Hubble is only 3,200 feet across and a whopping...

Vesto Melvin Slipher (November 11, 1875 - November 8, 1969) was an American astronomer. His brother Earl C. Slipher was also an astronomer and a director at the Lowell Observatory. He used spectroscopy to investigate the rotation periods of planets and the composition of planetary atmospheres. I...

Orbital elements: 2013 BN73 Earth MOID = 0.4379 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 45.52241 (2000.0) P Q n 0.24760513 Peri. 93.61168 +0.56956416 -0.77356301 a 2.5116722 Node 317.40427 +0.49079502 +0.59122832 e 0.5372272 Incl. 24.23702 +0.65933066 +0.22814326 P 3.98 H 20.1 G...

A meteor was spotted in the sky above Wolverhampton and parts of Staffordshire last night. The blue and green streak of light was also seen by people living in Shropshire. People across the area reported seeing the object flashing across the sky at around 9pm yesterday. [url=http://www.expressa...

The Idutywa (H5) meteorite fell in Eastern Cape, South Africa, on the 1st February, 1956. A total mass of 3.46 kg was recovered. 32° 6'S, 28° 20'E

The Hallingeberg (L3.4) meteorite fell in Kalmar, Sweden, on the 1st February, 1944. A total mass of 1.456 kg was recovered. 57° 49'N, 16° 14'E

The Aztec (L6) meteorite fell in New Mexico, USA, on the 1st February, 1938. A total mass of 2.83 kg was recovered. 36° 48'N, 108° 0'W

The Domanitch (L5) meteorite fell in Bursa, Turkey, on the 1st February, 1907. A total mass of 438 g was recovered. 40°N, 29°E

The Zaisho (Pallasite) meteorite fell in Shikoku, Japan, on the 1st February, 1898. A total mass of 330 g was recovered. 33° 42'N, 133° 48'E

Orbital elements: 2012 YN6 Earth MOID = 0.0528 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 317.05015 (2000.0) P Q n 0.32890960 Peri. 207.52401 -0.75596827 -0.64831419 a 2.0785079 Node 291.76537 +0.61709091 -0.65962915 e 0.5082203 Incl. 5.59575 +0.21842799 -0.38023427 P 3.00 H 22.1...

On February 1, 2002, Chinese astronomer Zhang Daqing from Kaifeng discovered a new comet in the constellation Cetus, and reported it to the IAU. He found that Japanese astronomer Kaoru Ikeya had discovered it earlier than he had, as the time of sunset is earlier than China. According to tradition, s...